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Shepherd-Hound mix, born April 2005 in North Carolina. I made the trip north to a rescue league and was adopted by Ginger and Cali when I was 10 weeks old. I was a the size of a fountain soda cup at the time but I'm now a leggy, 60 pounds!

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Papa found this guy outside! Woolly worm forecasters -- yes, there are such two leggers! There are even town festivals with worm races and fun events to lead up to the prediction of the upcoming winter based on the little caterpillars' bands. Okay, so any way these forecasters can predict, with a boasted 85% accuracy (disputed by scientists but I bet a certain groundhog would side with the Woolly Worms), the weeks of winter based on the thickness and color of the 13 bands and the thickness of the hairs. In summary, I found this:

I gots those here too. Mine had tiny Black heads and tiny black butts. So far they are right... It is really cold here now and we have a skift of snow on the ground. BAH you can keep it all. I had to wear my camo coat for playing out this afternoon. brrrrrrr

We're with Mack. We like the wooly bear at your house. We've never seen a wooly critter like the one in the top picture. Furry interesting post about them predicting the weather. Also like the fun in the snow pic of youall playing.Wags & woofsErnie,Sasha,Chica

I have no idea what a woolie worm is. I don't know if we have them where I live. I'm on the West Coast in Southern California. I know they do get snow n the mountains, but we're not in the mountains. I've never seen snow. It sure looks fun!

Hi Cali! Wow we never heard of those woolly worms before - and we had no idea that you could figure out the winter based on their fur color! We wish it had been orange - we don't like the cold and snow very much! But it does seem to be correct so far!

Heehee! I luved both those Woolly worms but I think the second one is my favoritest! (We don't have woolly worms here but if we did, they'd prolly have little bathing suits on or something. I'm pretty sure winter is NEVER gonna gets to Collie-rado.)

Hey Zona Girl!Great pix of your crawling buddy. This is about the only kinda worm that doesn't scare me! BOL I hope we get tons of snow this year...but my peeps hate it. Love your pix of zoomies in the snow.Grr and a Smitten Woof,Sarge